The Cassandra of Credit Derivatives
Business Week – January 28, 2008
By Ann C. Logue


Some watch for her name in The Wall Street Journal or her face on Bloomberg TV; some buy her two books on collateralized debt obligations and credit derivatives; still others pay good money for her advice on how to avoid serious problems when issuing or packaging collateralized debt. "What she has prognosticated in this area has been born out in good stead," says Eric Gleacher, founder of Gleacher Partners, a New York investment bank. "She's been doing this for 20 years," during which she has foretold the collapse of the thrift industry, First Alliance Mortgage, Long-Term Capital Management, Enron, and others that misjudged the risk in debt and derivatives.

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley 2009)


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